Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.
A/N: I decided to give Sasunaru month a try in English this year, so here you have it. This is a collection of individual and mostly unrelated drabbles. Both Sasunaru and Narusasu tropes will be included and each chapter will have its own warnings, as well as a tag to specify if it's SN or NS.
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Prompt #6: There was only one bed (-)
Warnings: Continuation of yesterday's prompt. Fantasy tropes.
Shoutout to AngelSelene, magma and RecitedPlay for helping brainstorm for this prompt, even though the result ended up being nothing like I originally planned.
Also, I decided to use what I wrote for the WTSMTM server's weekly prompt to finally get this prompt out.
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"Why do you hate me so much, anyway?" the blond suddenly asked, hands behind his head as he looked into the starry sky.
Sasuke eyed him from the corner of his eyes, following his steps in the darkness, noticing just how human Naruto looked, even if he wasn't.
"I don't…" he sighed, and started fidgeting with the only arrow he had left. "I don't hate you."
Naruto then turned to look at him, and his expression screamed 'bullshit'.
And yeah, well, Sasuke guessed he had valid reasons to believe he hated him, but it wasn't really something personal or anything. He didn't even know Naruto was a demon, in the first place. He had just been chasing a prey, as he always did.
"It's not like I knew you were… whatever the hell you are, and not just simply a fox," he reminded him nonchalantly.
Naruto snorted.
"You still seemed pretty adamant on killing me, though." he commented, but there wasn't really any bitterness in his voice. That told Sasuke Naruto was cautious, but not really scared of him.
"Nothing personal," the hunter replied.
"So you just go out hunting animals for fun?" Naruto arched an eyebrow.
"Not for fun," he responded defensively. "I come from a family of respectable hunters, I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do."
"There's nothing respectable in killing other living creatures."
"They're just animals."
And only then, Sasuke realized his mistake.
"Not all of them are," Naruto replied, like it was obvious. "And even if they were, animals still deserve to live in peace and not be hunted like trophies."
"They kill each other too," Sasuke protested.
"Out of necessity in most cases," Naruto said, then shrugged. "I guess you're just one of those humans."
"One of which humans?"
Ignoring his question, Naruto kept talking, this time to himself. "I wonder how you managed to cross the barrier, though."
"Again, what're you talking about?"
"Oh, we're here," Naruto stopped on his feet just in front of an enormous tree. It looked thicker than most trees here, but Sasuke still didn't know exactly where they supposedly had arrived. At least not until he saw, with wide eyes, how Naruto just went through it and disappeared completely, like the tree had swallowed him.
"O-Oi!" Sasuke called him, but his only reply was the crickets singing in the dark.
He looked around frantically, trying to find Naruto, and started to panic when he felt observed. But then, half of Naruto's body just peeked from the tree. "Hey! You coming or what?"
"Coming where?"
Naruto just rolled his eyes and disappeared again.
Dubiously, Sasuke padded closer to the tree until it was at an arm's reach, and stretched his hand to touch it, only to realize it went past through it. Inhaling deeply, he pushed through and crossed some kind of portal that took him to the interior of what seemed to be a living room.
"Took you long enough," Naruto said, and just plopped himself down on an armchair.
"What is this place?" Sasuke asked, dumbfounded.
"Welcome to my den. Or, well, I guess it's not really a den if you think about it, but I still like to call it that."
"You've got a fucking house inside a tree?" Sasuke said incredulously.
"Neat, huh?" Naruto seemed to be pretty proud of his home, though. "Well, get comfy and don't break anything."
The place wasn't big, really. Just the living room (merged with the kitchen, actually), one bedroom and one bathroom. Enough for one person – er, fox? – to live in.
"There's only one bed," Sasuke uttered dumbly when he entered the bedroom.
"Well, duh. I live alone here."
"So where am I gonna sleep?"
"What, too much of a scaredy cat to share with me?" Naruto teased and Sasuke just glared at him. "We either share or you sleep on the floor, I'm not giving up my bed for you."
"Fair," was all Sasuke had to say about the matter, turning around to get back to the living room, where he left his assets aside and laid on the floor.
"Really? Okay, then," Naruto just blinked at him and then shrugged. "Don't come crawling to the bed when you're freezing later into the night."
"I won't," Sasuke assured him.
A couple of hours later, Sasuke did not, in fact, crawl back to the bed when the cold started getting into his skin, no. He stood up and walked, mind you.
The mattress was soft and comfortable, so he just got under the sheets, not caring if he woke Naruto up or not, nor that he was sharing a bed with a man. He'd slept in worse places before anyway.
It didn't take long for Sasuke to fall asleep. He didn't notice the arm that snaked around him a while later, nor the nose intently sniffing the nape of his neck.
"I guess you're mine now," a voice murmured into the dark.
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A/N: I wasn't planning on continuing this universe at all, but here you have it hahaha Maybe there'll be a third part, who knows.
